butterfly on the jungle floor,
warmed by a shaft of light.
Jungle Spotlight [Haiku]
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Tag Archives: insect
“Illusion” by Amy Lowell [w/ Audio]
Walking beside the tree-peonies,
I saw a beetle
Whose wings were of black lacquer spotted with milk.
I would have caught it,
But it ran from me swiftly
And hid under the stone lotus
Which supports the Statue of Buddha.
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“Come slowly — Eden!” (205) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
Come slowly -- Eden!
Lips unused to Thee --
Bashful -- sip thy Jessamines --
As the fainting Bee --
Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums --
Counts his nectars --
Enters -- and is lost in Balms.
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Lifelike? [Senryū]
lifelike bird sculpture
doesn’t fool the insect
that lands on its beak.
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Poppy [Haiku]
cliffside poppy:
bee shakily alights
in a mountain breeze.
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Clipper [Haiku]
Elusive Cicada [Senryū]
seeking cicada
that drills my brain,
I find only a shell.
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Moth Flight [Haiku]
moth falls off wall,
pulls up erratically, &
struggles for altitude.
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Schrödinger’s Dragonfly [Haiku]
Grasshoppers [Haiku]
walking in rice stalk,
grasshoppers ping forward,
plink - plink - CRUNCH - plink...
